Steve Yale-Loehr has practiced immigration law for over 30 years. He is co-author of Immigration Law and Procedure, the leading 21-volume treatise on immigration law. He also teaches immigration and asylum law at Cornell Law School as Professor of Immigration Practice, and is of counsel at Miller Mayer, LLP, in Ithaca, New York.
Mr. Yale-Loehr was chair, co-chair, or a member of the EB-5 Investors Committee of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) for over 10 years. He frequently speaks on EB-5 issues at immigration conferences around the world. He also founded and was the first executive director of the Invest In the USA (IIUSA) trade association to promote the EB-5 program and to liaise with the immigration agency. The IIUSA web site is at http://www.iiusa.org. He also testified at a July 2009 U.S. Senate hearing about the EB-5 program. http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=3998.
Mr. Yale-Loehr received his B.A. degree from Cornell University in 1977 and his J.D., cum laude, from Cornell Law School in 1981. He was editor-in-chief of the Cornell International Law Journal. After graduation Mr. Yale-Loehr clerked for a federal judge.
From 1982 to 1986 Mr. Yale-Loehr practiced international trade and immigration law at a large law firm in Washington, D.C. From 1986 to 1994 he was managing editor of Interpreter Releases and executive editor of Immigration Briefings, two leading immigration law publications.
Mr. Yale-Loehr is the co-author of many books, including America’s Challenge: Domestic Security, Civil Liberties and National Unity AfterSeptember 11; Balancing Interests: Rethinking the Selection of Skilled Immigrants; J Visa Guidebook; Understanding the Immigration Act of 1990; and Understanding the 1986 Immigration Law, and numerous law review articles.
Mr. Yale-Loehr is a member of the New York bar, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the AILA business immigration and asylum committees.
Mr. Yale-Loehr is annually listed in Who’s Who in America, Chambers Global, Chambers USA, and in the International Who’s Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers as one of the best immigration lawyers in the world. He is the 2001 recipient of AILA’s Elmer Fried Award for excellence in teaching and the 2004 recipient of the AILA’s Edith Lowenstein Award for excellence in advancing the practice of immigration law.